Harrietts Exciting News: Lula Magazine.

Hello Ladies! A little while ago Aimee mentioned that I had some exciting news.

I was a little anxious to share it at the time but now I am finally ready to tell you

 all that I am now working for Lula ! To those of you who aren't already familiar 

Lula is a magazine which caters to ladies of the world who love  style, music, art 

and make believe! It's style is ethereal and dreamy, using high fashion to create 

playful, often vintage inspired looks. For now I am interning in the publishing 

office helping piece the spring/summer issue together, which is such valuable 

experience to me as a journalism student. I have also been assisting on shoots 

helping the stylists and aiding the editor and photographer to insure everything

runs as smoothly as possible! 

I can't wait to let you know how the next few weeks go, but for now I will leave

 you with some of my favourite images from past Lula editorials. 

Lots of love

Harriett xx

Wedding Bells!

Hello ladies!  I wrote this post for the lovely casey while she has some time off. Welcome to the blog Casey's readers and a welcome back to everyone else!  

So I have a confession. I have started collecting Antique wedding dresses and accessories and started wafting round my apartment in them like Miss Havisham. I dont have a fiance, although I was until a few months ago dangerously close. However this hasn't dampened my enthusiasm and obsession with the romance of weddings. I thought it would be fun to share with you my little collection today, maybe any of you out there who are planning their special days will leave with a little inspiration, and those of us who aren't... well we can 

just keep playing dress up!

This Thursday when taking our weekly stroll around Spitafields Antique Market in east London, I stumbled upon this beautiful 30's veil and gloves set in their  original box. I simply couldn't resist! The Lace is so fine and in amazing condition, I am wearing it in the first picture with a 20's deco beaded belt as a head dress. The gloves are pure silk with 3 peal buttons each, although the fingers are a little to long for my child like hands. 

Inside this box, lives the most special vintage garment in my wardrobe. An original 

20's ivory silk wedding dress. Purchased from Oxford street this would have been a 

very expensive item in its day!

Unfortunately it is far to delicate to display on a hanger. It is in need of some

urgent repairs to the shoulder seams, however the beading is so beautiful I 

just had to share! 

This is the dresses original belt, but i prefer to wear it as a head band.

This beautiful head dress came with the wedding gown, but I don't think they were

originally created to be worn together. The leaves are made of a silver foil, attached 

with wire to the band of which drapes the most delicate pink netting. 

This is my 30's silk wedding dress, that I picked up for a snip due to the staining on the back. 

I just fell in love with the sailor collar, net inlay and row of covered buttons. 

And heres me prancing around in it, like most of us used to in our mothers at around 8 

years old. I sadly never grew out of it! Next on my list is a 20's wax flower head dress, 

and a pair of silk wedding shoes!

Thanks so much for reading, I hope you all enjoyed a peek into my little wedding 

obsessed world! 

Harriett xx

Hair tutorial: Lazy Pincurls

Hello fabulous ladies! This is my post which has been featured on the lovely 'Casey's elegant musings'. If you've come from there, welcome to our blog! But for our regulars, as previously requested here's my tutorial on 'Lazy pincurls'.

I'm lazy! 

I get often asked how I do my hair and for years I set my hair into traditional long winded patterns. Then after a hectic night of swing dancing I invented 'lazy pincurls'. A loose seductive set that will take ten minutes setting and five minutes brushing.

You will need:

Setting lotion ( I use 'Lottabody')

Bobby pins

A hair brush

I like to set my hair dry. I find my hair is too thick to dry in a set. 

The fringe will be set into a marcel wave type look. For this, take a large section of the hair, spray on setting lotion and brush through. 

Backcomb the roots of the front.. Then wrap round your finger to form the pincurl, roll it down to your head and secure with bobby pins. The front curl should sit raised as shown below. 

Here's the next pincurl. The laziness of this set is really due to the large quantities of hair I'm using. For all the other non fringe curls, spray with lotion, brush through and pin to the head.

Both sides of the head's curls should be facing the front of the face until the parting forms at the back.

Do the same with the other side. 

Not including the front, there are only twelve pincurls around my head. 

Six rows of two and the fringe. 

E.g. Curls facing the front until the parting.

Bish, bash, bosh! 

Time to go to bed or leave it be for a few hours.

Nice sleep? Now take out the pins!

I can't say there's a big secret about the brushing! Basically if you've set it well the (ahem) hard work is done. You merely need to brush out every curl and brush the curls to form a beautiful cloud of hair. Brush forward to your face and hairspray. 

Here's the finished result! 

Good hair day without any effort! Hope you enjoyed my post. Lets get Lazy! 

Loves of love 

Aimee 

xx

Seriously sussex.

Hey lovely ladies, 

So we haven't been posting a lot recently as we spent a long weekend in Sussex. It was sososo lovely to get out of London and its stresses. Sometimes the only thing to do is to leave problems at home. For those of you who haven't read our previous posts, instead of paying London prices we often decided to take a trip to Lewes and Brighton to do some shopping. 

First stop was Lewes where we met up with our lovely new friend Sophie (hi Sophie!). We plundered round Lewes together buying hats, prints, dresses and shoes and then hit up the pub. 

The next day we went to Brighton town.

Record hunter Harriett. 

Our favorite! 

We then went to Kens in the lanes with Harriett's fabulous family. I love Kens it sells lots of fry ups and everything has a vegan alternative. Yum.

Harriett and her ma. 

Harriett's family are amazing. We spent a lot of time in her Grandparent's new swish hot tub and sauna. We are now considering putting our pennies away so in a million years we can have a hot tub too! 

Her records. 

Harriett and her brother Thom.

We then headed back to Lewes to attend bonfire night. For those of you that don't know Lewes, its the most quiet little antique village but for bonfire night everyone goes a bit mad. 

The procession! 

One of the many many bonfire societies. 

I've never seen anything like Lewes bonfire! I normally find that bonfire night is a little disappointing but it was absolutely amazing and went on for hours. 

The yobs!
There are so many different societies who all have their own identitys, some dress up as pirates or Edwardians. The young societies dress plainly but bring lots of very loud fire crackers which deafened me and Harriett for a good two days! 

The next day we went back to home via Lewes. 

Harriett wears

40s boater - Lewes antique shop

40's hunting jacket - charity shop

40's smock - Lewes antique shop

Victorian skirt - Lewes antique shop

Vintage mary janes - charity shop

Harriett wore a bag that she purchased for a friend in Lewes. Its an amazing 30's military bag which came with original bandages.

It even has the name of the owner inside. We salute you E. Giles!

I'm wearing

40's hunting jacket - a present from Harriett 

50's silk shirt - Lewes antique shop

20's dress - Lewes antique shop

Edwardian style boots - John Lewis 

Thifted belt - charity shop
Necklace - a present from an old friend

The absolutely beautiful hats Harriett bought from 'May's antiques' in Lewes. 

Victorian topper with a bird. 

Victorian mourning bonnet.

I also bought a beautiful 40's blouse and a Christmas present for Harriett at 'May's antiques'. But you'll just have to wait for outfit posts!

In other news I no longer work for the retro lingerie company that I used to. However I do have a fabulous new job at Lush and I'm much happier and excited to be there! Harriett also has some exciting news but I'll leave her to tell you that!  

Lots of love.
Aimee xx 

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween to all our readers! I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. 
This year Aimee and I went as two of Jack the rippers unlucky victims and paraded around the east end!


 I must apologise for not getting this post up for Monday but we had some very 
sad news which put a bit of a dampener on the days activities. My darling little pet mouse past on to a better place. Most of you didn't get the pleasure of meeting him, but I can assure you he was an absolute rascal. Rest in peace milky you will be missed!


Harriett xx